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  rayonymous

  Sep 07, 2019

  I don't see anything particularly fresh in this book. A woman and her doppelgängers from of 3 different alternate universes were chosen for an unknown cause, all three of them converge at a single, isolated and bizarre location. Soon they were forced to jump into the main protagonist's world which was not used to anything extra ordinary until now. The narrative started off good but ended up being bland, I thought the art was good nonetheless.

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  Valiant Son

  Oct 15, 2019

  Visually, this is a really interesting and exciting first issue. The pencils and inking are very strong, but the colouring takes things to the next level. If only Sevy had spent as much time on the script, because narratively this is a complete mess. What is going on? There are shades of Saga in the narrative structure (but Brian K. Vaughn is a better writer). There is no exposition, but rather an internal monologue from the main character, which fails to explain anything. Sadly, Sevy has fallen foul of the modern comic book disease: far too much nonsense is spoken and written about the need for few words in comics. I'm here to call bullshit on that: comics are part visual and part verbal; people who argue that words are unnecessary, simpl y haven't read that much in the way of comics. It is possible to tell wordless stories, but most American comics need narration, thought bubbles and speech bubbles to tell the story. For the love of all that is holy, can we please restore some sanity? My comments above may be seen as hyperbolic, but I maintain that they are valid. This could be a really interesting story, if only some thought had been given to the verbal story telling. more

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  xXDibbs

  May 16, 2020

  Review copy provided, Triage by comic book duo Phillip Sevy [@phillipsevy] (Artist, Writer) and Henry David [@gofrankgo] (Letterer). Background Info The premise of this comic revolves around the philosophical question of "what is the purpose of life" a fascinating way to start off a comic for sure. We get our first look at our main character Evie Pierce the nurse helping a women give birth at her hospital. After this we are treated to sequence of perspective shifts to characters I shall refer to as Fallout girl, and super BL. They show us a glimps of these characters in their worlds. Fallout girl lives in a post apocolyptic wasteland where they must make the most of their limited resources. Super LB on the other hand is int roduced in one of the few stand out pages where Henry's lettering really adds depth to the scene and makes it far more dynamic then it would have been otherwise. From what we are shown its safe she's the best hero in a hero society. We know very little about these characters at this point but this is the first chapter. Then our 3 characters get Isekai'd (no truck unfortunately) into a world of what I can only assume to be a 4th central character that we will refer to OBL. It is in this page that we are treated to a second amazing page, the surrealism of this page contrasts amazingly well with the rest of the book and is on the comics cover. It is here that OBL explains to the characters that they must stick together no matter what to survive. Here we meet our main antagonist who crashes this party like Terry Cruse on a Jet sky at a wedding. This is also were I will end the background section of this review. The Review In this first chapter, we really don't get to know these characters that well. In fact their clothes are about all we know about them. What Phillip has done is created a very ambitious setting for his narrative but he is stuck with a dangerous balance. Too little and the characters become one dimensional, too much and it effects pacing. Speaking of, we have 3 main characters from 3 different worlds with 3 different stories but we don't know anything about them stand out. They feel more like 3 side characters rather then 3 main characters, not to mention Hunter steals the show with his flamboyant entrance. Every panel he is on has more impact and personality then any of the panels with the other characters. This comic has me confused, are we rutting for hunter kill the other 3 or the reverse? The characterization makes it very hard to emphasize with these characters. What should we emphasize with if at all? This inability for the reader to have a stake in the characters means more often then not as long as Hunter is flamboyant as he usually is then they will be rooting for him to win. We also never really find out what makes this nurse so special when compared to the other 2 She's just there, she fades into the obscurity of the pages. Again this is a very ambitious comic. But alas it buckles underneath the weight of its own ambitions. more

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  xXDibbs - May 17, 2020

  Correction GoFrank's IRL Name is Frank Cvetkovic

• 8.5
  

  Phil B.

  Sep 06, 2019
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  BushwickBrawler

  Sep 10, 2019
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  Silver Rocket

  Sep 09, 2019
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